Calusa residents are eager to learn how the photographic evidence will affect the 550-home plan.
On the grounds of the shuttered 168-acre Calusa Country Club golf course in West Kendall, hidden in the brush and branches of an enormous tree, nestle little blue miracles: the bright, turquoise eggs of tricolored herons being tended to by a mating pair. Residents have long claimed that the overgrown golf course is home to numerous endangered species, including the tricolored heron, a species native to Florida that the state lists as threatened and imperiled.…